Donja Love’s List of Black Theater in New York City

Playwright Donja R. Love is on a roll. The recipient of the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, the 2017 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellow and many other accolades, his play “Sugar in Our Wounds,” the first in a trilogy, was recently staged at MTC’s Studio at Stage II. “Fireflies,” part two of the trilogy, will kick off the Atlantic Theater Company’s 2018-2019 season September 26-November 11.

Love is a consistent advocate for other Black artists making their marks. When he took to Facebook recently with a list of plays that he dubbed “the 2018-2019 Black-Ass-Theatre Season in New York City,” his community applauded — or liked and shared, in this case — and responded with list suggestions of their own. We think the list is so great that we asked if we could share it here.

An additional note about the list from Donja Love: “31 of these 55 works are by Black women/femmes because God is good.”

“The 2018-2019 Black-Ass-Theatre Season in New York City” by Donja Love (and friends)

Donja, a playwright, sat down with our host Tonilyn at our studios to discuss matters of the heart and the pivotal moments of his youth that shaped him into the unapologetically Black queer man he is today. His resolution to practice self-love, which blossomed under his parents’ care, is the basis of his “radical softness” philosophy and at the core of his life and work.